Doesn’t this strike anyone as overly cynical and just… incurious? Yes, hype and trends are obnoxious, there are individuals and organizations that reflexively s

Doesn’t this strike anyone as overly cynical and just… incurious? Yes, hype and trends are obnoxious, there are individuals and organizations that reflexively seek sexy tech and apply it wrong, but isn’t this also part of how we find things that work and things that don’t? It’s easy to run through decades of tech trends and present them as the only things that dominated the industry, just like it’s easy to rattle off one-hit-wonders or movies that flopped and claim that the arts are dead. But I remember Apache fading in favor of nginx. MySQL being shouted down by Postgres. Frameworks like Rails and Django becoming popular over the LAMP stack (with the aforementioned A and M…). Docker over Vagrant for dev environments. TypeScript, unidirectional data flow, the decline of OOP. I can go on and on and these are just the ones that spring to mind immediately! I’m still very much a “choose boring tech” guy. I also sometimes feel frustrated by how fast technology changes and how the winners of hearts and minds are often the result of marketing effort, not good technology. But unless you’re a technology blogger, you probably don’t need to be bothered by this. New tech emerges for a reason. Some of it will be overhyped, some of it will be unfairly ignored, some things will win and some will lose. I feel fortunate to live in a time when there’s so much enthusiasm and creativity for new ways to solve old problems.